Covering Onscreen graphics

Many church video feeds include onscreen graphics, which clutter and distract from captioned videos.

At Post Sunday, we have several templates designed to help make you cover onscreen graphics or anything unsightly. We'll take you through using one of our Gradient templates to get the job done.

Starting point

You can see this clip has an onscreen graphic we'd like to cover.

Select a Template

We have two gradient templates, one white and one dark. Users on our Plus plan can also create custom templates versions with any custom brand colors. Select a bottom gradient template from the left sidebar.

We've started with the White version.

Select the gradient element in Layers panel

Click the gradient in the layers panel to expose the resize buttons on the canvas.

Drag the gradient upwards

Click the middle of the gradient element, and shrink the gradient upwards to the top edge of the onscreen graphic you want to cover.

Add a Rectangle Element, resize, and set the color

In the left sidebar, select the Elements tab, then click Rectangle to add a new rectangle to the canvas.

Move and resize the rectangle to cover the graphics and change the color to match the start of the gradient, probably white (#ffffff) or black (#000000). The order of operations here is unimportant.

We're using white in this tutorial.

Move the rectangle element behind

The new rectangle is on the top layer by default. To move it behind the captions, speaker name, and other elements but on top of the video, select the ... icon, and Move Backwards until it is behind all the elements you wish to remain visible. You may find it is easier to Send to Back and then Move Forward, since there are more elements in front of the rectangle than behind. There are many paths to the same place here.

We're done

That's all! Click save, and you are done editing.

We recommend our Pro Plan users save this customer template, but clicking the Duplicate Template button in the Templates Tab.

You might also consider favoriting this template to have it prioritized for automatic content.

Similar tricks abound across our template library. You can also consider using shapes behind captions on other templates.

Go Further

You can also add a rectangle behind captions:

Or resize the video element to cut off the graphics (this does not always work if the speaker is moving, but can work if stationary or camera tracking is tight).